Most techies will be hired for these 5 technologies in 2018

Technology has reshaped the job outlook dramatically. This year all industry insiders are vouching for Artificial Intelligence, immersive experiences, digital twins, event-thinking and intelligent apps as the job churners for the coming times. These technologies are said to be creating a foundation of digital business models and ecosystems, thus creating a new market of jobs.
TimesJobs takes a closer look at these five strategic technologies, which are being adopted aggressively by all. So let’s get to know them well:

1- Immersive experienceAugmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and mixed reality are changing the way the people perceive and interact with the digital world. Combined with conversational platforms, a fundamental shift in the user experience to an invisible and immersive experience will emerge. Application vendors, system software vendors and development platform vendors will all compete to deliver this model.

Over the next five years the focus will be on Mixed Reality (MR), which is emerging as the immersive experience of choice, where the user interacts with digital and real-world objects while maintaining a presence in the physical world. Mixed reality exists along a spectrum and includes head-mounted displays (HMD) for AR or VR, as well as smartphone and tablet-based AR. Thus, the battles for smartphone-based AR and MR are expected to heat up in 2018.

2- Digital Twins A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. In the context of IoT, digital twins are linked to real-world objects and offer information on the state of the counterparts, respond to changes, improve operations and add value. In the short term, digital twins offer help with asset management, but will eventually offer value in operational efficiency and insights into how products are used and how they can be improved.

Outside of the IoT, there is a growing potential to link digital twins to entities that are not simply “things”. “City planners, digital marketers, healthcare professionals and industrial planners will all benefit from this long-term shift to the integrated digital twin world,” say the experts. For example, future models of humans could offer biometric and medical data, and digital twins for entire cities will allow for advanced simulations.

3- Event-Driven Digital businesses rely on how much exposure it gets in the new digital business moments. Business events reflect the discovery of notable states or state changes, such as completion of a purchase order. Some business events or combinations of events constitute business moments — a detected situation that calls for some specific business action.

Skills required:Organisation skills
Communication
Creative approach

4- Intelligent apps and analytics Over the next few years every app, application and service will incorporate AI at some level. AI will run unobtrusively in the background of many familiar application categories while giving rise to entirely new ones. AI has become the next major battleground in a wide range of software and service markets, including aspects of ERP.

5- Cloud to the edgeCloud
is a system where technology services are delivered using internet technologies, but it does not dictate centralised or decentralised service delivering services. When implemented together, cloud is used to create the service-oriented model and edge computing.